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        <h1 class="bottom bmm">Welcome to the Raxan Framework</h1>
        <div class="version">Version: 1.0 Beta 1</div>
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            <h2><img src="docs/images/bag.gif" /> What's included:</h2>
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                <li>CSS and PDI Framework</li>
                <li>jQuery Interactive Libraries</li>
                <li><a href="css-examples/index.html">CSS</a> and <a href="pdi-examples/index.php" title=" A web server running PHP 5.1 or higher is required">PDI</a><sup>1</sup> Examples</li>
                <li>CSS Documentation</li>
                <li>HTML Templates</li>
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			<p> <sup>1</sup> - A web server running PHP5 is required</p>
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                <strong>Quick Links</strong>
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                    <a href="docs/index.html">Raxan CSS Documentation</a><br />
                    <a href="http://raxanpdi.com/pdi-overview.html">Raxan PDI Online Documentation</a><br />
                    <a href="http://raxanpdi.com/examples.html">Raxan PDI Online Examples</a><br />
                    <a href="docs/credits.html">Credits/Acknowledgements</a><br />
                    <a href="http://raxanpdi.com/forum">Community Forum</a><br />
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            <strong>Featured Demo:</strong>
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                <a href="http://raxanpdi.com/searchbox-example.html" title="View this demo online"><img class="hlf-pad" src="docs/images/searchbox.png" /></a>
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            <h2><img src="docs/images/signal.gif" /> What's New and Noteworthy:</h2>

            <p>With this release we have opened up the doors of new possibilities for the Raxan PDI Framework. This document seeks to outline some of the newly added features and functionalities of the framework.</p>

            <h3>New XML Support</h3>
            <p>Have you ever had the need to query and process an XML document but you don’t have the time to learn about the XML DOM or the XPath query syntax? If so, then you’re going to love the new XML support that’s now bundled with PDI. Within a single line of code you can query and manipulate the data you need just as if you were working with an HTML document.</p>

            <h3>Mobile Web Application Support</h3>
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            <p>Cell phone sales are expected to exceed one billion handsets per year by 2009, making mobile phones one the most widely used devices for communicating and sharing information. With an increasing number of consumers using their cell phones to access online information, the need for mobile web sites and applications are on the increase.</p>
            <p>Starting with Beta 1, developers can quickly build mobile enabled web pages with very little effort.</p>

            <h3>Template Binder</h3>
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            <p>Some people say that a picture is worth more than a thousand words. But nothing could be more pleasant than for a developer to be able to picture all the creative possibilities with the new Template Binder API. In a single call, you can bind your dataset to elements within the page and use the format option to format the display for selected fields. See <a href="http://raxanpdi.com/pdi-sample-page.html#bindtoevent">Binding To An Event</a>.</p>

            <h3>Easy Pagination</h3>
            <p>Adding a pager to your newly generated grid display is just as easy as creating the grid itself. All that’s needed is a single call to the new RichAPI::paginate() function.</p>
            <p>The possibilities are endless when you think of the wide variety of pagers that you can create with your own custom templates.</p>

            <h3>New Event Binding Options</h3>
            <p>The new Auto-Toggle, Auto-Disable, Delayed callback and Character Input Cache options will give you more power and flexibility when creating rich user interfaces. See <a href="http://raxanpdi.com/pdi-sample-page.html#bindtoarray">Binding Elements To An Array</a></p>

            <h3>Improvements & Stability</h3>
            <p>Here are a few things worth noting in this beta release:</p>
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                <li>New CSS Selectors</li>
                <li>Access Remote HTML pages or XML documents</li>
                <li>New Timeout Event with repeat option</li>
                <li>Generate HTML5 Standard Web pages by default</li>
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            <h3>SVN Repository</h3>
            <p>With this and future releases you will be able to gain direct access to the source code from Raxan SVN repository. By using your favorite SVN toolkit or IDE you can quickly checkout the latest source code.</p>

            <p><a href="pdi-examples/index.php">Visit the PDI Examples web page</a><br />A web server running PHP 5.1 or higher is required</p>

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        <p class="medium">The Rich Ajax Application Framework. Visit <a href="http://raxanpdi.com">http://raxanpdi.com</a></p>
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